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Whatever coverage and delivery frequency of the household ration is ultimately deemed most
appropriate for the target communities, awardees are expected to ensure that household rations
are sufficient to protect the woman and child individual rations without reducing participation
while minimizing Bellmon concerns.
The sections that follow present two possible PM2A funding scenarios regarding the individual
and household rations, with associated commodity volumes and potential beneficiary household
coverage. The first scenario is based on the ration design from the Haiti pilot in which a monthly
ration was provided to individual beneficiaries (mother and child) and beneficiary households for
each month of participation, but the child rations are reduced to reflect the physiological
capacity of children under two. The second scenario is based on the same principle of
coverage, in which mother and child rations are provided on a year-round basis, and household
rations are again provided to all PM2A-eligible households but limited to lean season months.
The third scenario limits household rations to only the most food insecure households and limits
delivery of household rations to lean season months. For simplicity, the percentage of
households considered most food insecure is assumed a uniform 33 percent of all PM2A-
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eligible households within a given catchment area.
Whether the scenarios represented in Table 12 below are the most appropriate levels of
intervention will depend critically on (1) whether there are sufficient cash resources available to
effectively support a PM2A intervention, even if appropriately geographically targeted to
chronically food insecure communities in Burkina Faso; and (2) whether potential awardees
determine through formative research and their ongoing monitoring and evaluation efforts that it
is necessary to provide household rations year-round to all PM2A households to achieve
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desired nutritional outcomes.
Table 12: Funding outlines for PM2A
Country Program
Funding Devoted
to PM2A Rations
Total Annual
Volume of
Commodities
Ration 20
Number of Beneficiary
Households Covered
Under Activity
$4.5 million 6,245 MT • mother/child rations year-round to all PM2A-
37,994
$6 million 8,325 MT eligible HHs
50,659
$7.5 million 10,407 MT
• HH rations year-round to all PM2A-eligible
HHs
63,323
$4.5 million 6,270 MT • mother/child rations year-round to all PM2A-
70,888
$6 million 8,362 MT eligible HHs
94,518
$7.5 million 10,452 MT
• HH rations year-round to all PM2A-eligible
HHs but limited to lean season
118,147
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This percentage is based on the approximate national average one-third of households who are in cereal poverty
(see Table 11 above).
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For a discussion of food ration versus non-food ration costs in a PM2A program, please see Maluccio John and
Cornelia Loechl. 2006. “Preventive versus Recuperative Targeting of Food Aid: Accounting for the Costs” accessible
via http://www.fantaproject.org/pm2a/IFPRI R2 0306.pdf
20 The calculations underlying these estimated ration costs are detailed in Annex 11.
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